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A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights

“The Great Dissenter,” by Peter S. Canellos, is a biography of John Marshall Harlan, whose conversion to the civil rights cause was hard-won.

Jennifer Szalai
Author: Jennifer Szalai

This post first appeared in New York Times - US Supreme Court. Read the original article.

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